Imagining the Open Range: Erwin E. Smith, Cowboy Photographer - Hardcover

Price, B. Byron; Smith, E.; Amon Carter Museum Of Western Art; National Cowboy Hall Of Fame And Western Heritage Center; Buffalo Bill Historical Center

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0883600900 ISBN 13: 9780883600900

Publisher: Amon Carter Museum, 1998

Synopsis

A biography of cowboy photographer Erwin E. Smith (1884-1947), this book is illustrated with 157 duotones, and is hard cover with dustjacket.

About this title

From the Publisher:

In the first comprehensive biography of Smith, Byron Price has drawn on Smith's archives and the history of southwestern ranch life in the early twentieth century. Imagining the Open Range is extensively illustrated with Smith's compelling photographs.

From the Inside Flap:

Erwin E. Smith (1884-1947) always wanted to be a cowboy and an artist. As a teenager he worked on various Texas and New Mexico ranches during the summer and soon turned to photography as a way a to preserve the open range cowboy life that already was fading away. Between 1905 and 1912 he divided his time between home in Bonham, Texas, art school in Chicago and Boston, and ranches in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, where he recorded roundups and other scenes of cowboy life with his camera. Smith's photographs, showing both the romance and the hard life of the cowboy, include some of the best-known images of Southwestern range life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amon Carter Museum
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0883600900
• ISBN 13: 9780883600900
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 187